my game completely froze earlier when in combat against 3 enemies using magic. This was 2 hours in after the update and I had been experiencing some lag 30 mins prior.

Guys it worked for me why the disagrees

Anyway it worked for me for 30 minutes and then it lags worse now because dungeons start lagging for me know when before the patch dungeons worked perfectly and that was the reason why I stayed playing Skyrim, because no matter how bad the game lagged outside all I had to do was make it to a dungeon and I could play how the game should play for half an hour until I cleared the dungeon. Bethesda are screw ups.

It's interesting as we've played post patch for 4 hours with no lag on a PS3 slim and a 12MB save file, although this many people having issues after the update means Bethesda still have work to do.

It seems the 360 may have been the better console for Skyrim.

I swear it has somethin to do with having a slim or fat ps3.

There's people on The forums claiming that they lowered the texture quality. Can anyone confirm this?

XperiaRay

Since the PS3 has separate VRAM, and the issue seems to stem from play data, I doubt they would reduce texture size as a fix.

Don't forget that there is no loading between zones, so the game data needs to be available at all times. Any time you travel around, the game does a lookup to match environment data such as dead bodies, their inventories...heck leave an axe on the ground half way across the map, and it will be there if you run back.

Most probably Bethesda can optimize the video stream to less than 256 MB of VRAM, thus leaving more of the 512 MB of unifed XB360 data space available for the execution code + real time play time.

They are most probably streaming that data from the PS3 drive on the fly, thus the lag with big files.

Maybe real-time SPU driven game data compresssion / decompression would help, thus making the most of the 256 MB of RAM ??

The lag has mostly gone for me, it crops up again in some large cities (like Solitude) and when traversing a mountain or something but its noticeably better. Have noticed new glitches though, when crouching sneaking crosshairs wont come up, or I stand up and they wont go away. Also had it when I keep moving forward for a while and then stop on the thumbstick my character will keep running unless I stop them via jumping or swinging a sword.

I'm so happy I didn't buy this. I have been very cautious with bethesda ever since fallout 3. People praise them, but its always the same issues. Frame rate, corrupt files, long loads. It's just insane they don't test out there game before releasing it.

I don't see many bugs on pc. I seriously think people are exaggerating or picking at straws. Play the damn game instead of taking out your magnifying glasses to see if you can spot insignificant unnoticeable differences between different versions of the game!

You think they would have learn this after Fallout New Vegas, my file for it is about 14mb and it doesn't just lag. It freeze's.

Seeing how they could not resolve large save file issues in both Fallout 3 and Fallout Vegas there's little chance of them being to do so with Skyrim. This is a systematic problem with engine and the PS3 which will continue until you plug a gig of RAM into it.

So glad I went with the PC version. Using ambient occlusion and the high quality texture filtering tweaks from www.Geforce.com the game looks amazing with no mods installed. The texture details have so much depth now.

There's a good patch that came out for the PS3 lag its called

"buy the xbox version" patch

Seriously I learned my lesson, i bought oblivion on my PS3 which I love until the stupid vampire bug screwed me and then I found out it was only on PS3.

Do yourself a favor not only DONT buy a game like this when it comes out, wait for the GOTY editions with all DLC content and patches are out and get it on the platform with the least issues

Maybe Next Gen Bethesda youll get it right on all platforms

All problems, becouse consoles SUX. Played on PC about 90 hours, and still no problems.

I have had no problems at all running skryrim on my ps3 patch or no patch.

It's functioning better than before, but the graphics do look a bit tweaked down. I just wish load times were minutes long. Sigh. Atleast once it loads I have a good time to play.

However, it completely sucks walking out of a dungeon, fast traveling, and then walking into the door of finishing the quest, and then walking out, and then having to fast travel again, that takes like 5-10 minutes. D:

Mine seems to be working fine , got a slim PS3 , pre patch my save file was 9.8mb but post patch it's now down to just over 8mb , i'm over 70 hours in.

Fix the forsworn and chidea mine quests it's broken cant get into markarth even though I've paid them off the guards. Can't get 100% on thieves guild radiant quests

The lag generated by the weather has been fixed.. snowflakes and other elements no longer slow me down. The only lag I encounter is when I enter town where there are loads of people wandering around OR when I sprint towards large buildings or mountains.. it is probably due to the HDD loading up the necessary files.
Hopefully, the next patches will allow us to delete Quests.

After I downloaded the patch I noticed that the load times are slightly longer. Anyone else experienced the same issue?

now in my game i cannot fight dragons at all they just fly around glitched and i cant fast travel cuz "enemies are nearby" but they just warp around in the sky and do nothing. Now my game freezes all the time, when before the patch it hardly ever locked my PS3 up. what a joke.

Please for the love of dog, stop calling it "lag". Lag is a slang term for network latency. You guys are talking about a drop in the frame rate.

And no the patch didn't change the texture, don't spread wild nonsense theories. From some reports (which can be accessed by more scientific people), they may have change the AA to get rid of some of the blur. Since it is FXAA it is tunable.

So the patch works as intended. There is still some sort of memory leak, but instead of 20 mintuted it takes over two hours. Not the end of the world, most people don't sit and play for that long and if they want to they can just exit the game and jumo back in for another two hours. On the PC I get booted to the desktop randomly more often than that.

People saying that the texture res wasn't lowered; yes I'm pretty sure it has been, I played it 2 days ago and it was still looking ok, I installed the patch having read no patch notes or comments and my first thought at the loading screen where you can manipulate whichever object you get shown was "why does it look more pixelated?" then the game started up and everything looks pixelated, not too pretty at all. Think I'll remove the patch data and play without for now, hadn't experienced slow down yet anyhow...

Seriously How can this be GoTY? I'm asking in all Honesty What does it say about the gaming Culture when a game is in consideration for GoTY and at some points the Framerate dips to 5 FPS?

As soon as i dl the patch and started playing it the frame-rate was all ready stuttering and lag was the sames as before. It was like that for awhile especially in fights with more than 3 people at one time. So i deleted all my auto saves and turn off all auto saves feats and it started working alot better. Though the lag and frame-rate issue is still there its not as bad after i did all that. They do need a another patch to fix it completely and fix the quests that are glitched out and have bugs cause 4 quest i cant finish cause they are glitched and wont work at all.